Download Full eBooks in PDF
Unlocking The Air And Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Unlocking The Air And Other Stories book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015037303636
The title story portrays the birth of democracy in Eastern Europe, Standing Ground is set in an abortion clinic and features a teenage girl, and the story, Poacher, offers a new twist on Sleeping Beauty.
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Plume
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Animals
ISBN : 0452261392
In this provocative new collection, Le Guin creates a magical, whimsical world in which the line between animal and human is quietly dismissed. A simple, yet brilliant, reversal of the conventional, interspersed with acute and often beautiful insight. 11 line drawings.
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481475983
A collection of short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. Le Guin—selected with an introduction by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time. The Unreal and the Real is a collection of some of Ursula K. Le Guin’s best short stories. She has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. She has had her work collected over the years, but this is the first short story volume combining a full range of her work. Stories include: -Brothers and Sisters -A Week in the Country -Unlocking the Air -Imaginary Countries -The Diary of the Rose -Direction of the Road -The White Donkey -Gwilan’s Harp -May’s Lion -Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight -Horse Camp -The Water Is Wide -The Lost Children -Texts -Sleepwalkers -Hand, Cup, Shell -Ether, Or -Half Past Four -The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas -Semely’s Necklace -Nine Lives -Mazes -The First Contact with the Gorgonids -The Shobies’ Story -Betrayals -The Matter of Seggri -Solitude -The Wild Girls -The Flyers of Gy -The Silence of the Asonu -The Ascent of the North Face -The Author of the Acacia Seeds -The Wife’s Story -The Rule of Names -Small Change -The Poacher -Sur -She Unnames Them -The Jar of Water
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618730367
Praise for Ursula K. Le Guin's short story collections: "It is the author's more serious work that displays her talents best. . . . [A] classy and valuable collection."—Publishers Weekly "A master of the craft."—Neil Gaiman The Unreal and the Real is a two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best stories. It is a much-anticipated event and there is no doubt it will delight, amuse, and provoke. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's satirical, risky, political, and experimental earthbound stories. Ursula K. Le Guin has received the PEN–Malamud and National Book Awards, among others. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547545622
Sutty, an Observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to a new world—a world in the grips of a stern monolithic state, the Corporation. Embracing the sophisticated technology brought by other worlds and desiring to advance even faster into the future, the Akans recently outlawed the past, the old calligraphy, certain words, all ancient beliefs and ways; every citizen must now be a producer-consumer. Their state, not unlike the China of the Cultural Revolution, is one of secular terrorism. Traveling from city to small town, from loudspeakers to bleating cattle, Sutty discovers the remnants of a banned religion, a hidden culture. As she moves deeper into the countryside and the desolate mountains, she learns more about the Telling—the old faith of the Akans—and more about herself. With her intricate creation of an alien world, Ursula K. Le Guin compels us to reflect on our own recent history.
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152066741
Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes "remembers" things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, blinded by grief, flees the only world he has ever known. And in what becomes a treacherous journey for freedom, Gav's greatest test of all is facing his powers so that he can come to understand himself and finally find a true home. Includes maps.
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598534948
The inaugural volume of Library of America’s Ursula K. Le Guin edition gathers her complete Orsinian writings, enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction collected here for the first time. Written before Le Guin turned to science fiction, the novel Malafrena is a tale of love and duty set in the central european country of Orsinia in the early nineteenth century, when it is ruled by the Austrian empire. The stories originally published in Orsinian Tales (1976) offer brilliantly rendered episodes of personal drama set against a history that spans Orsinia’s emergence as an independent kingdom in the twelfth century to its absorption by the eastern Bloc after World War II. The volume is rounded out by two additional stories that bring the history of Orsinia up to 1989, the poem “Folksong from the Montayna Province,” Le Guin’s first published work, and two never before published songs in the Orisinian language. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Author : Mike Cadden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135873615
This book critically examines Le Guin's fiction for all ages, and it will be of great interest to her many admirers and to all students and scholars of children's literature.
Author : Ursula Le Guin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2376865603
Si vous comparez l'œuvre d'Ursula K. Le Guin à une montagne, accueillante, dont les sommets sont ses romans, découvrir un recueil de nouvelles, inédites en français, c'est comme si un vagabond vous confiait un soir au coin du feu : « J'ai trouvé un col qui ouvre un nouveau passage ». Dès lors, l'apprenti alpiniste n'a plus qu'à monter une équipe prête à se lancer à l'assaut de cette nouveauté. Voici dix-huit nouvelles à gravir : le chemin est balisé, avec de la science-fiction, de l'imaginaire, des fictions spéculatives, de la fantasy, la palette imaginative qu'Ursula K. Le Guin a développé au long de sa vie et de son œuvre.
Author : Juhi Jaisinghani
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649516541
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” is what the author Juhi Jaisinghani believes in. When everybody is talking about the uncertainties happening during the lockdown 2020, she tries to show you another side of it. A software engineer losing his job with no clue about his passion, a couple trying to revamp their almost broken marriage, a police officer on the verge of forgetting his old dream, a girl cheated on by the love of her life still looking out for love, a couple about to get married with everything planned, an orphan guy desiring solace, a girl waiting for her childhood sweetheart, a high-profile journalist considering love for granted, an airhostess in hope of the biggest opportunity of her life, a struggling actor almost always making the wrong choices and regretting about it—life indeed gave them lemons they would be able to make lemonade of, or they would give up against time.
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062470997
“Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind.” – Cincinnati Enquirer The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "Winter's King" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.
Author : Emily Nagoski,Amelia Nagoski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781984817068
The Nagoskis explain why women experience burnout differently than men-- and provide a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life. With insights from the latest science, prescriptive advice, and helpful worksheets and exercises, they explain why rest, human connection, and befriending your inner critic are key to recovering from and preventing burnout. -- adapted from publisher info
Author : George Mann
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780337043
This encyclopedia is the most up-to-date, concise, clear and affordable guide to all aspects of science fiction, from its background to generic themes and devices, from authors (established and new) to films. Science fiction has evolved into one of the most popular, cutting-edge and exciting fiction geners, with a proliferation of modern and classic authors, themes and ideas, movies, TV series and awards. Arranged in an A-Z format, and featuring a comprehensive index and cross-referencing system, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is also the most accessible and easy to use encyclopedia of its kind currently available.
Author : Piper CJ
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728270692
An addictive fantasy romance from TikTok sensation Piper CJ, now newly revised and edited. Two orphans grow into powerful young women as they face countless threats to find their way back to each other. Farleigh is just an orphanage. At least, that's what the church would have the people believe, but beautiful orphans Nox and fae-touched Amaris know better. They are commodities for sale, available for purchase by the highest bidder. So when the madame of a notorious brothel in a far-off city offers a king's ransom to purchase Amaris, Nox ends up taking her place — while Amaris is drawn away to the mountains, home of mysterious assassins. Even as they take up new lives and identities, Nox and Amaris never forget one thing: they will stop at nothing to reunite. But the threat of war looms overhead, and the two are inevitably swept into a conflict between human and fae, magic and mundane. With strange new alliances, untested powers, and a bond that neither time nor distance could possibly break, the fate of the realms lies in the hands of two orphans — and the love they hold for each other.
Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1581 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405192446
This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile